Well I finally got to do some sightseeing. Here´s some pictures of La Sagrada Familia to start with. More to follow.... [View Full Entry]

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Well I have made it through my first week on the CELTYL course!! I have enjoyed my first week although it has been a lot of hard work. I am lucky enough to be living fairly close to International House - it only takes about 10 minutes to get here every morning which is great. There are 9 of us on the course altogether and we are quite the multi-cultural bunch. We are ranging in age from 21-50 and are from England, England again, England but living in Switzerland, England but living in Spain, Ireland but currently living in Spain, half [View Full Entry]

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I had a very early start today. Dad and I left for London in the early hours of the morning and reached Gatwick in good time. I had a lot of time to kill at the airport so we had a leisurely breakfast and I bought a Spanish phrase book and an alarm clock (I can´t believe I left my clock behind - it´s probably the most vital thing when I have early starts for college each morning!!) The flight was great. It was remarkably clear and as I had a window seat I had a great view of England as [View Full Entry]

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Well I leave for Barcelona tomorrow morning. I have to get up at the ridiculous time of 4am but I guess it's all for the good as I'll arrive in Spain in the afternoon which should give me some time to get my bearings and locate International House!!! I am currently in the process of repacking and double checking everything!!! [View Full Entry]

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We had to take our hire car back this morning. We drove it back to thecentre and phoned Erin who agreed to pick us up. We went to wait in Starbucks until she arrived. Starbucks was deceptively far away from where we left the car. I finally got my wish of actually walking somewhere in California, and suddenly realised why no-one in California walks anywhere. The pavement was baking hot and reflected the heat up at us even though it was still quite early in the day. The long straight road was actually a lot longer than it looked and it [View Full Entry]

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Ok, well in theory a trip to Disneyland was the perfect way to end my visit in California. In practice it turned out to be quite a challenge. I woke up on Monday to find keely in quite a state. Her car had been vandalised and a huge rock sat on the back seat while the the back windscreen was completely smashed and the other back windows had obviously been hit with the same rock. Keely furiously blamed it on our druken visitor from the previous night but nothing could be proved. A policeman turned up to take our statements about [View Full Entry]

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We had another relaxing day today. Keely wanted to show me her childhood home in Modjeska Canyon so we drove around the area. Modjeska Canyon is named after the Polish stage actress, Helena Modjeska, who settled in the canyon in the late 19th century. We drove past Keely's old house and then found a spot to park the car. A few kids were playing basketball in a park and we walked past and headed up the mountain a little way. It was nice to be out in the countryside and it was fun to be on a local walk with Keely [View Full Entry]

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Keely and I spent the day at Universal Studios in Hollywood. I got my only real view of Los Angeles as we drove past. I tried to get a photograph of the skyscrapers as we went by but couldn't get a good view from my seat. So I took off my belt, dove onto the back seat and managed to get the photo just as the road moved downwards and took them out of sight. I scramble back into my seat just as Keely calmly informed me that it was illegal to climb around the car while it was moving and [View Full Entry]

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Well yesterday I had the unusual experience of moving house while on holiday. Keely was moving out of her old apartment and into her new cottage and due to a change in plans the moving date coincided with my visit. We spent the morning shifting her belongings and then went out for lunch. Lunch proved to be an interesting event. We went to a sandwich bar and as I wasn't feeling particularly hungry I tried to order a cheese sandwich. However the simple cheese sandwich turned out to be something my american friends had never heard of. The waiter looked confused [View Full Entry]

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I had an early start this morning and went with Keely to meet her babysitting charges and help get them ready for their day summer camp. It was fun to meet the kids and they showed my all over the house and garden and then ate their breakfast while bombarding me with questions about England: 'What's the best thing about living in England? What's your oldest building? Do you have fairies in England? Do kids watch Spogebob Squarepants? Do you think the Queen would like bagels for breakfast?' We finally got them away from the breakfast table, bundled into clothes and [View Full Entry]

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